I'm a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I am a member of the Graduate Linguistics Student Association, from which you can order many fine publications, including dissertations, occasional papers, and the ever popular proceedings of NELS.
cmdavis AT linguist DOT umass DOT edu
--Interests--
My primary research interests are in formal pragmatics, semantics, syntax, and their interface(s). I am currently working as an RA for Chris Potts on SUBTLE: Situation Understanding Bot Through Language and Environment. I have done work on the pragmatics of evidentials, and ongoing work on sentence final particles in Japanese. Recently I've started doing some work on issues of learnability and computer simulation of learning algorithms. I have a long-standing interest in Japanese linguistics, and often draw my data from Japanese.
--Outside Academia--
I like to study and play go, although I rarely have time to these days. I spend an unreasonable amount of time tinkering with linux, to which my pc is now monogamously wedded (no dual-booting!). This is not, despite popular misconception, due to any inherent difficulty running linux, but to an insatiable urge to hack. I also enjoy Shotokan Karate.
